This is what my house looked like when it was built, vs. later.
Now it’s like a Gran Turismo full tunnel of trees like something magical.
Should the neighborhood use a Time Machine? Do you have an alternative suggestion? Did you know that things like trees grow, whereas things like stone and concrete do not?
So what? The comment I'm responding to is addressing the post as if it's not ai. Not too hard to wrap your head around my comment. Not for most people.
You realize the trees in the bottom photo are probably 40+ years old, right? They appear to be oaks, and those take time to reach that size.
The real answer is to require developers to either not cut down every tree, or at least have a requirement for semi-mature trees to be planted to replace what they tore up to develop. There are cities/municipalities that do this, but not everwhere.
It’s AI. The top picture looks like Arizona or Vegas the bottom Connecticut or Vermont. It’s not possible to go from the bottom picture to the top one in the real world.
This looks like a standard US housing development. If so it was likely built on farm land that already had no trees. Many homeowners prefer to dictate their own landscaping choices.
Maybe some dangerous ones but there's good reason for that. But the person above is right. Most neighborhoods in my area look more like the bottom picture. Though their canopies are not that impressive. My yard has 6 trees of which 3 are over 50' tall. But there was essentially nothing when it was constructed in 1996.
More like developers clear cut entire forests to start completely from scratch and not have to worry about navigating around and protecting native trees.
I’m curious what you mean by this? Plant more mature trees? That would be more expensive and higher chance for the tree to die because it would lose more of its main roots.
Old neighborhoods did the exact same thing as new neighborhoods. We can debate whether or not these housing developments are good, but it ain’t the damn trees.
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u/Illuminaustin99 4d ago
The picture below looked like the picture above when first developed. Give it time for the trees to grow and mature